Not by a long shot. I have a 'rearview' car display which looks suspiciously like the one he has and it works quite well. I don't watch videos on it but command line is great and if you tweak the resolutions the gui is usable also.

A glance at the FAQ in question reveals it runs only on Windows USB 3.0 and later on OS X. The RPi has USB 2.0 and since the faq states the device is 'optimized' for 3.0 you should expect some problems. But without the drivers and an api from theeyetribe it would turn into a reverse engineering prob...

Well, the current source on github doesn't have a -b option. But I believe the answer is that omxplayer writes directly to the screen/frame buffer using the openmax api in the gpu, bypassing X. I'm unclear about overscan handling in openmax. So to get rid of the underlying cruft, yes you have to bla...

A friend showed me this example of a command line phone contact list using a plaintext file as database. File format: name: street address: city, state zip: extra fields... One used your favorite editor to create the file. use the script or alias named 'phone' SEARCHTERM can be content of any field:...

Actually, I gleaned most of that from the raspbian man page. As for the persistence I'm not sure. You may have to put a setvtrgb command in your .bashrc or .profile, or probably more correctly in with the sysint stuff in rc.d. But definitely try rebooting it without doing that first and see what hap...

The man page on raspbian is slightly more helpful, showing a table mapping the escape codes to default colors. The kernel keeps a table of colors used by the virtual terminal. There are 15 to choose from and they correspond to the 'white, black, red, ...cyan' etc colors that can be displayed. Each o...

In bash, conditionals (the stuff between square brackets in the if statement) are of strange and wonderful construction. I don't use them often and when I do I always go back to the man page to verify. Of course the man page is strange and wonderful in its own right. Here's a list of bash comparison...

Thanks for the clarification. It appears to me you are using the RPi as a backup appliance. That script should run your rsyncs and immediately shutdown whenever the RPi boots between 3am and 6am. Whenever the RPi boots at any other time, it would print that "don't run the non cronjobs" and not shutd...

Let's see if I have this straight. You have an electrical timer which turns the power supply for the RPi on and off at various times during the day. (when the timer turns off power how are you assuring a smooth shutdown?)(how many times a day does the timer boot the RPi?) When the RPi boots and it i...

You're welcome. Well I wasn't sure if the order of the vids was important. You are using an index into the vid[] list which increments every time through the play loop. But each time through the play loop the vid[] list may change drastically. Say a.mp4 and b.mp4 are in the directory at startup. In ...

There appears to be firmware/driver code necessary. see a windows app here: http://designs.digikey.com/library/4294959886/4294959871/613 and firmware here: http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en546844 Check with the distributor you purchased from or t...

Once you're done pulling all the packages, you need to do a custom build kernel. During the configure phase, turn off all drivers and subsystems you won't be using. i.e. enable the drivers for the on board Ethernet and other on board systems and whatever additional peripherals you personally have an...